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The president saying we will hunt you down. this will be a test of the new reality in afghanistan because by pulling out u.s. forces which also includes u.s. contractors but also u.s. intelligence assets and also placing u.s. air bases outside of the country, that means less time over target by drones, et cetera, you have less intelligence gathering, less capability to carry out strikes like this. the president talks about over the horizon capability. yes, the u.s. has a lot of technology. its n...

0 operation, which says you have some fidelity on the intelligence. thats different than a lot of what i saw. bottom line, if they had that fidelity, eventually they will find these guys. all right. our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >> this is cnn breaking news. >> welcome to our viewers here around the united states and around the world. the horrific attack outside the kabul airport. moments ago, president biden honored the heroes of the mission in afghanista...

Obviously the plan for this withdrawal. >> yeah, thats right. thank you for having me. that was an op-ed he wrote in "foreign policy" my magazine. he is right. there are many criticisms one could level at president biden right now about the way that the withdrawal took place but i think the one that sticks most is the timing is sort of the botched sense of the intelligence gathering, or at least listening to the intelligence that was coming in at various points. but the point that, you know, wer...

Courtney described very well. the problem is not getting people out of the airport. the problem is getting people into the airport. weve got to negotiate that with the taliban as distasteful as that may be to us. thats the tactical problem. next, operationally, we have to figure out how to reset intelligence gathering in afghanistan when all of our troops are gone. how are we going to know whether or not taliban 2.0 is rejoining al qaeda and thirdly, andrea, to your point, strategically, we have...

We had a minimalist international presence there. there were more troops in britain than there were in afghanistan. there were more british troops in cyprus than there were in afghanistan. we just had enough to give air superiority, intelligence gathering, istar capabilities to give the afghan forces the edge so they could contain the taliban — and that gave legitimacy to the afghan government. now, some schoolboy errors were made, and i touched on it before about the governance structure that...

Own party must own that failure when it comes to uk policy? yeah, we need to put this in perspective as to whats just happened. weve not been discussing afghanistan in the international media for the last three years on the scale of which we were doing in the first decade. the afghan forces were managing, they were coping. we had a minimalist international presence there. there were more troops in britain than there were in afghanistan. there were more british troops in cyprus than there were in...

There were more british troops in cyprus than there were in afghanistan. we just had enough to give air superiority, intelligence gathering, istar capabilities to give the afghan forces the edge so they could contain the taliban — and that gave legitimacy to the afghan government. now, some schoolboy errors were made, and i touched on it before about the governance structure thats appropriate to afghanistan, but things were working out. sadly, it became a presidential election issue, and if yo...

Intelligence, all over the country and in very critical way supporting them with air power, that was allwi going to go away. so the morale of the afghan military began to deteriorate then. and fissures and potential fractures began to emerge then. that being said, there still are some elements or there were some elements of the afghan military that were very capable. the afghan special forces and the commandos, they have been a very strong and capable fighting force for several years now. theyve...

Said that you cannot have a base here like you have in the past. they are closely aligned with russia. and then you have iran. so as far as friendly neighbors for america to place themselves for intelligence gathering, for that critical air support that afghan national security forces will need at certain stages will just make it so much more difficult. and as you heard from dr. abdullah, he cannot guarantee that it wont become a safe haven for terrorists again. and when ive spoken to u.s. milit...

THE cost of a major late-night policing operation outside the former Debenhams store in Limerick city centre is likely to be more than €6,000, it has been ...